Grave

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave

Born: 6 Sept 1863 in Kirillov, Novgorod, Russia
Died: 19 Dec 1939 in Kiev, Russia

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Grave was educated at the University of St Petersburg where he studied under Chebyshev and his pupils Korkin, Zolotarev and Markov. Grave began research while a student, graduating in 1896. In 1889 he obtained his masters degree and, in that year, began teaching at the University of St Petersburg.

For his Master's Degree Grave studied Jacobi's methods for the three body problem, a topic suggested by Korkin. His doctorate was on map projections, again a topic proposed by Korkin, the degree being awarded in 1896. The work, on equal area plane projections of the sphere, built on ideas of Euler, Lagrange and Chebyshev.

Grave became professor at Kharkov in 1899 and, from 1902, he was professor at Kiev, remaining there for the rest of his life. At Kiev Grave studied algebra and number theory, creating an important school there. Among his pupils were O J Schmidt, N G Chebotaryov, B N Delone and A M Ostrovsky.

Grave had a short period when be became interested in mechanics and applied mathematics, but he returned to algebra.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A P Youschkevitch, History of Mathematics in Russia Until 1917 (Moscow, 1968), 547-554. 
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